Software Engineer

LandEarly; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LandEarly, an AI job application platform, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale features that power the job-seeking experience across web and mobile. You will own backend services and user-facing surfaces, ensuring reliable deployments and strong data models.

You will mentor teammates, improve engineering practices, and collaborate with product and design to ship high-quality software that scales with growing user demand and traffic.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing APIs and data models.
• Proven track record owning projects from start to finish.
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong fundamentals: testing, CI/CD, and system design.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features across the stack.
• Own technical decisions end to end from design to deployment.
• Collaborate with product and design to translate needs into reliable software.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability as usage grows.
• Review code and mentor other engineers.
• Help evolve engineering practices, tooling, and standards.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Code review

Mentorship

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

LandEarly is an AI job application agent that finds roles, tailors resumes and cover letters, and submits applications while postings are still fresh, so early applicants get seen. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the product that powers this experience for job seekers across web and mobile.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and ship features across the stack, from backend services to user-facing product surfaces
• Own technical decisions for projects end to end, from design through deployment and monitoring
• Collaborate closely with product and design to translate user needs into reliable, well-tested software
• Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of existing systems as usage grows
• Review code and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on the team
• Help establish and evolve engineering practices, tooling, and standards as the team grows

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including work on production systems at scale
• Strong command of at least one modern backend language and experience designing APIs and data models
• Track record of owning projects independently, from ambiguous requirements to shipped, maintained features
• Experience working with distributed systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, CI/CD, and system design
• Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating cross-functionally with product and design

Nice to have

• Experience building consumer-facing products or applications with real-time or automated workflows
• Familiarity with AI/ML-powered product features or integrating with large language models
• Experience working at an early-stage or fast-moving startup